"Lam just standing here to let the sun soak into me obit."
It was about two o'clock in the afternoon in London. For two weeks or more the weather had been rainy and cold. Not a glimpse of the sun by day or of a star by night. Just dulness, dampness. and chilliness everywhere. People were feeling cross as hungry dogs. It was a time for suicide and rheumatism, and there was plenty of both.
Yet Heaven pitied us at length, and at noon of the fifteenth day the clouds were swept away like dust by a new broom, and the sun came out warm and bright. "How we all Messe him, and tried to lit ourselves up to meet bim half way. You can fancy hen it was that Lasked the young clerk what he was doing out on the pavement in business hous, and he answered in the words which begin this article. "Small blame to him, for whit is business to a baptism of saushine? Why, nothing, to be sure.
Now, if you will be good enough to read what Mr. Hodgson says, I'll tell you what he and the clerk were alike in. First, though, we will let our friend from Leeds have the floor for three minutes. Hesays:-
"1, George Hodgson, of 17, Fraser Street, Stoney Rock Lane, Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows "For over twenty years I suffered from a bad stomach and indigestion. I always felt tired and languid, and had a strange uneasy feeling at the pit of my stomach. I had a foul taste in the mouth, particularly in the morning. My appetite was poor, anil after every meal I had great pain at the chest and sides. Iwas much troubled with sick headache, and I had often pain and weight at my forehead. A hacking cough troubled me dur-
and I spat up a deal of thick phlegm. As ing the night and on rising in the morning, time went on I became pale and emaciated, and got weak and nervous, ani) for teeny years never fell ell struggled on with iny work as best could, but felt so exhausted that I had to lie down during my dinner hour, and also when I reached home at night. Iwas always in pain, and what my sufferings were during those long years, no words o+n ex; T took all kinds of medicines I could hear tell of, and was under three doctors, but no medicine that I took gave me more than temporary relief, At last I became weary of taking Eurabie. La February of 1888 I got very low physic, and quite thought my ailment was in:
and weak, for, added to my old standi plaint I was in such a state with. piles could neither sit nor lie down. The pain was almost more than I could bear. It was like a knife cutting me open, and perspiration would fairly run off me, so severe were my sufferings, For six mouths I went on in this weaker and weaker, and I thought going to die, Just at this time I took up a book that was left at my house, and I read of a case like mine having been cured by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle from the Ca-operative Stores, Burmantofts, and commenced takin it. After three or four doses of the Syra found my food digested better anc I had less pain, and by continuing with the medicine I frdually gained strength. "By-and-by, as if magic, all the pain from the piles left me, and indigestion troubled me no more. I never ailed anything since, although three years have elapsed, und I ner-r fee 50 tell in all my Lfeas Ido now, Seigel's Syrup has made a new man of me. I wish others to know what the medicine has done for me, an! I ive full permission to the proprietors of it to make what use they like of this statement, in the hope that other sufferers may be benefited, Tam a tailor's presser, and have been in the employ of a wholesale clothier in Quebec Street, Leeds, for over eight years. I will gladly' answer any inquiries.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously beliving the same to be true, by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory' Declaration Act, 1835 (Will. 1V., ¢. 62). jigued) Grxoce Hovasos. Declared before me at Leeds, in the County of York, by the said George Hodgson, this 6th day "of October, {(Seal.} 189", "<(Signed) Our. Cooke,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.